Drum Roll Please! And The Biggest Story Of 2010 So Far Is…?

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:41 am, October 6th, 2010

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You know how the saying goes…it’s the economy, stupid. Despite the midterm political frenzy which has seemingly taken over the news cycle this year (following the political Obama frenzy that preceded it in various forms) the economy has dominated the so-called newshole this year according to the Pew Research Center. From their latest study:

Even though the 2010 campaign did not heat up until the primaries began in earnest in the spring, it is now the third-biggest story of the year to date, accounting for 7% of the newshole, according to PEJ’s News Coverage Index. The No. 1 story in 2010 thus far has been the economy (12%), followed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (9%)

Needless to say the year is not over yet, and judging by how the midterms dominated the news cycle last week — “accounting for 26% of the newshole from Sept. 27-Oct. 3″ compared to just 9% for the economy — it’s entirely possible the biggest story of 2010 will be the nation’s midterm elections. Or at least the nation’s midterm elections seen through the funnel of Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Nikki Haley, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Carl Paladino. The question remains, however, are we and/or the state of the nation’s democracy, the better for it?

midterms, Pew, The State of Journalism

Garm Bel Iblis

pretty sure the story of the year will be the repubilcan’s destruction of the Democrats.
writer

The Drop Out Governor is the most horrible person on earth! I just hate, hate, hate, hate her!! (Fists clenched, feet stamping)

Just filling in till the King gets here.
ecesareel

40-50 years of incompetence and corruption…. i suggest you give david copperfeild a call…. asap…..

America is bleeding out…. and the brain dead Americans with an American idol mentality living in loopy-land

are at the old ball park !!!!!! sad, so very sad…..

freedom, once lost, never regained….. mr. george carlin said it best…. “it’s all b.s. !!”
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

We must give credit where credit is due. My latest video…….Obama Saved the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yp2vftSKjQ
njoy-d-ride

BP.
chucken

The ending of combat operations in Iraq and the almost complete silence of the right in it’s coverage because anything that gives Obama even a whiff of sucess has to be either downplayed or ignored.Over 4,000 killed,over 30,000 injured and the cost getting near a trillion bucks in a war that we were lied into and all the right can muster is “what about the surge”? that was only one part of the greatest foreign policy disaster in our nations history.
Tater Salad

If this is what you support then vote Democratic.

http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=32904
Ninja

Alvin Greene is not even in consideration here?
alamo2

Garm Bel Iblis said:
pretty sure the story of the year will be the repubilcan’s destruction of the Democrats.

Actually, the story should be how the Republicans tried to destroy America by being total obstructionists. Should they win back the House, we will see a lot of John Boehner, the lobbyists biggest friend.
Alric_IV

gordonbloyershow said:
We must give credit where credit is due. My latest video . . . Obama Saved the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yp2vftSKjQ

Oh, this I’ve got to see.

Again, Gordon, I don’t wish to pressure you, but please, please research how to use the ellipsis. I went ahead and changed it so I wouldn’t be embarrassed about quoting someone like you.
Alric_IV

gordonbloyershow said: We must give credit where credit is due. My latest video…….Obama Saved the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yp2vftSKjQ

Okay, I endured about a minute of your self-important little rant. Good, God. To think, politicians are currently pandering to the likes of you. It’s a dumbed-down nation.
Nachi

Stupid Murcuhns have short, putrid memories. Obama has saved their sorry butts, yet they thank him not – and continue on with their personal disenfranchised ignorance & hatreds. Weak, needy people, watching their Nation go down the tubes, courtesy of 20 years of RayGun & the 2 BushDrunks. Pitiful.
Alric_IV

Tater Salad said:
If this is what you support then vote Democratic.

http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=32904

Oh, look. Another meaningless video that some asshole thinks means something.
right-is-wrong

Alric_IV said:
Oh, look. Another meaningless video that some asshole thinks means something.

Well it was well done, and inspiring.
Also, made me remember Obama Girl.

aaaaaaaaa
Big Eddie

The 8/28 Al Sharpton Rally and Pickpocket Festival .
http://endisfar.com theendisfar

“The question remains, however, are we and/or the state of the nation’s democracy, the better for it?”

Hello? We live in a Constitutional Republic that has Progressed into a Democracy. Democracy is a dirty word. Democracy is a synonym for Mob Rule. A Democrat is either a Plebeian or Patrician in that codependent relationship.

But not for long, the Republic will soon be restored.
eingriff

Ignored.
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

Drum Roll Please! And The Biggest Story Of 2010 So Far Is…

http://www.sportsgrid.com/media/espn-producer-neil-goldberg-masturbating-watching-woman-change/
Ninja

Alric_IV said:
Oh, look. Another meaningless video that some asshole thinks means something.

You can laugh and call vulgar names to all of the conservatives you want. If you think it really means nothing, please ponder these stats:

North Dakota = Republican + 43%
Arkansas = Republican + 18%
Indiana = Republican + 18%
Wisconsin = Republican + 12%
Pennsylvania = Republican + 7%
Colorado = Republican + 5%
West Virginia = Republican + 5%
Illinois = Republican + 4%
Nevada = Republican + 3%
Washington = Republican + 1%

Yes all of those senate seats are currently held by D’s. I would venture to say what you call meaningless actually means alot to most Americans across a broad spectrum of the country.
Alric_IV

Ninja said:
You can laugh and call vulgar names to all of the conservatives you want. If you think it really means nothing, please ponder these stats:

North Dakota = Republican + 43%
Arkansas = Republican + 18%
Indiana = Republican + 18%
Wisconsin = Republican + 12%
Pennsylvania = Republican + 7%
Colorado = Republican + 5%
West Virginia = Republican + 5%
Illinois = Republican + 4%
Nevada = Republican + 3%
Washington = Republican + 1%

Yes all of those senate seats are currently held by D’s. I would venture to say what you call meaningless actually means alot to most Americans across a broad spectrum of the country.

Let me remind you, you jerk-off, lest you get to arrogant and read too much into your victory. The United States is just about always about 50-50, left and right. So this goes back and forth. It”ll be your turn for now, as it was at the beginning of the millennium. Your side will again overplay your hand, and then you’ll lose again. That’s the way it goes. The difference is, Democrats understand that it’s all cyclical. Republicans look at it as tea leaves, telling them the future is theirs forever, that they’re part of this big movement to “take back the country.” I was a frequent visitor to newsgroups back in 2001, and, man, in every newsgroup, regardless of the topic, there was some right-wing asshole pushing that conservative agenda, predicting all sorts of things for liberals, and, of course, they were taking names. This one guy made a list of all the liberal actors. Of course, we know what happened when The Dixie Chicks made an off-handed remark about the president. You guys are great for that sort of thing, so nobody really enjoys your time on top. The only people who like it are the minority in all the sweet seats. It’s bad news for everyone else.
glenn113

Palin and O’Donnell + Dumb and Dumber.
Alfred J. Lemire

Ninja noticed the omission of Alvin Greene from Ms. MacNichol’s lineup. How about the omission of Alan Grayson of Florida? His campaign’s ad on Daniel Webster (the living D.W.) managed to totally falsify what the Republican had said about women being subservient to their husbands. Note: a few sentences later, a Pauline admonition to husbands to love their wives as themselves neutralizes the words on a wife’s being subject her husband. (I will skip a few paragraphs on what I consider a misunderstood passage.)

Rep. Grayson, as hate-filled and bigoted as any other leftist, likely will lose. He deserves to.

Ms. MacNichol might be justified to ignore Messrs. Greene and Grayson, and doubtless other doozy Democrats. She mentioned the “news cycle.” More people are realizing what this former newspaper reporter has known for decades: the massively corrupt and untrustworthy news media, which propagandize for the left in ways matching that of the workers for Pravda and Izvestia, ignore or gloss over lefty blemishes in person and policy. The worst may be the Associated Press, especially its Washington Bureau, which is in full propaganda mode for the Democrats. (Cf. an article by Tom Raum on bailouts.)

If something that appears bad about Republicans surfaces, the news media will push it to Page One of newspapers and prominence in TV reports. Democrats? Anything that makes the left look bad will get no mention at all or will appear in a paragraph or two deep inside a newspaper or, on TV, not at all.

As for lefties insisting that Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell are “dumb,” I remember the odious journos who scoffed at the intelligence of Ronald Reagan. People reviewing his hand-written radio scripts found the evidence that he was a gifted editor, a superb and intelligent writer, perceptive and wise on the issues of his day. Ms. Palin’s Facebook entries are consistent with her speech; she writes them and they are cogent, informed, and well-written.

It would be nice if lefties could can the insults and stick to the issues. Oops. They lose on the issues. Like the Yahoos, they prefer to fling their output at their betters and make noise.
VRWC Destruction Machine

Nachi

This is your brain on drugs.
Jayson

Garm Bel Iblis said:
pretty sure the story of the year will be the repubilcan’s destruction of the Democrats.

If the republicans manage to get back in, it’ll be the destruction of America.